Kebra Nagast

How Akamhel slew T ehrelts five years old they ate and played together before them, and the mothers made garments of costly stuff for them, and [set] daggers above their loins, and chains on their necks. And the people seated the son of Maksaba on the throne of his father, and made him king over the Philistines. 8l. HOW THE SON OF SAMSON SLEW THE SON OF THE KING OF THE PHILISTINES Now that other son Akamhel, the son of Samson, " spake unto his mother Delilah, saying, Why am I not " And his mother reigning and sitting upon this throne ? unto him, " Cease, my son. This throne did not said belong to thy father, and this city was not thy father's when the God of thy father hath let thee grow up thou shalt go to thy father's throne." And her son said unto her, " Nay, I will neither forsake thee, my mother, nor Maksaba my mother, and I will be king here." And one day the two youths were drunk after [their] meal was ended, and the doors were shut. And the two women were sitting together about to eat flesh, and the two youths were playing before them, and they ate with them, and a maidservant held the dish between them. And 'Akemehel, the son of Delilah, took from the dish [a piece of] flesh, which would fill both his hands, and put it to his mouth, and Tebreles, the son of Maksaba, the King of the Philistines, snatched away that part of the flesh that was outside his mouth. And 'Akemehel drew his sword and cut off his head, and it fell into the dish before he could swallow what he had seized and his body fell upon the paving of the house and his hands and his feet twitched convulsively, and he died straightway. And fear and dismay laid hold upon their two mothers, and they spake never a word to anyone because they were afraid, but they swallowed the food which was in their mouths, and they looked at each other, not knowing what to do. city ; ; ; 139